Rabindranath Tagore was born in 1861 and died in 1941. He was
the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo
Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century
Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic
basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads. He was
educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to
England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies
there. In his mature years,
